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The City of Angels is still very empty. Walking on those magnificent cloud bridges and open-air squares feels like visiting ruins. Alleria walked side by side with me and Sandora, and also mentioned the challenges she faced.
Manpower dilemma.
"Only standard apostles can undertake complex and delicate tasks, but they have too few manpower, and the progress of the project has been greatly affected. We have created a large number of elemental craftsmen to assist in the construction, but the mass-produced elemental creatures cannot handle finely calibrated magic energy.
The nodes are so delicate and require flexible work. Now all the commanders who are good at creating magic creatures are extracting their souls to create smarter and more useful splinters... There are already sixteen soul splits.
Commanders who suffered from severe schizophrenia too frequently were sent for maintenance."
Alleria spoke in a very calm tone about the various problems she was currently facing. The more I listened, the more I felt cold sweat on my forehead. The situation in Tianjie City was not optimistic on the one hand, but more importantly, it was the mysterious side of these powerful people.
Working method - As Bella Villa said, the apostles of the mysterious side are extremely good at controlling their own inner beings. They control their souls as easily as eating and drinking. I have never heard of anyone who can do this before.
They cut their souls into seventeen or eighteen pieces and cultivated them in sections - are they earthworms?
Ahem, this idea is too rude, stop it, stop it.
Regarding splitting the soul. Now that I have mentioned it, perhaps a little explanation is needed. The so-called splitting one's soul into pieces does not mean cutting the invisible and intangible things like dough, but a process of virtual copying.
The soul is intangible and qualityless. It is neither matter nor energy. It is a collection of information. The spiritual level of a creature with a soul after removing the body includes two components: memory. And the process of processing these memories.
"Algorithm", and the soul is actually the latter. If you compare a person to a computer, the soul is the operating system. It is the "formula" for processing all the things you "know", such as when you face "drunk"
"With these two words, some thinking processes will immediately come to the conclusion of "telling the truth". Some thinking processes will immediately think of "promiscuous sex", then the latter has a yd soul... Well, this is a
It's a lame metaphor, and it doesn't quite meet the requirements, but that's basically what it is. The soul determines what conclusions the same information will produce in different individual spiritual worlds. Therefore, the soul can ultimately determine the "reality" of an individual.
.As long as the formula is certain, no matter what kind of values are filled in (memory or life experience, etc.), the same result will be obtained in the end (a person's external behavior, worldview, personality, and all the characters that can be expressed)
.Extracting the soul is to copy part of this huge set of formulas - this small copied fragment is enough for a dead object to obtain its own "world view", and then it can build on the basis of this world view.
It slowly builds up a complete soul that truly belongs to oneself. And for the mother body from which the soul has been extracted, it is absolutely harmful to repeat such an operation many times.
Why? Anyone who has used a computer knows that the things on the c drive cannot be tampered with...
The apostles on the mysterious side are very good at controlling their own souls. They know how to copy things from their own system disks without causing blue screen of death and other malfunctions, but this does not mean that they have a stronger system disk.
, every time the soul is extracted, a huge operation log will be left in the "system disk". If the extraction is too frequent, it will be too late to delete these logs. After a long time, people should be tied up and sent to the veteran cadre activity center.
Already...
"Let those commanders who are too desperate to pay attention to their health, at least save energy to face other emergencies. In addition, Bellavilla has organized a group of ravens to support you, I bet she should
All the ravens who have no tasks for the moment have been summoned. The pressure here should be much less." I told Alleria about the situation at Bellavilla. "Ravens seem to be very good at fine work.
Whenever I have nothing to do, I use arcane magic to micro-carve the Imperial Code on my fingernails, and I must be very familiar with things like repairing magic nets."
Alleria stopped in mid-air and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "This will indeed make it a lot easier. But using arcane magic to micro-carve the Imperial Code on your fingernails or something... is not the same thing as repairing magic energy nodes. Forget it,
It does not matter."
Under the leadership of Alleria, we came to a very lively place, which is located... at the back of the Forgotten Garden.
We all know that the Forgotten Garden is a complex of buildings built on a floating land. I have always thought that the Forgotten Garden is the buildings I saw, but I never expected that it actually consists of two parts, one is the upper city,
Part of it is the mountain below - the floating land is in the shape of an inverse cone. If you turn it around, the lower part of the inverted cone-shaped land will of course be a mountain. Before the Forgotten Garden was torn off from its parent star, it
Below is an inverted cone-shaped ** structure. This part was originally located in a large underground cavity. Now it has been rediscovered and turned into a "reflection mountain". This weird peak at the top and bottom was originally a backup factory. Now it is
It has been renovated and is being produced day and night. The standard apostle base of the mysterious system is insufficient and it is impossible to replenish the population by summoning a large number of puppet creatures. The Gunda Colossus and other magic soldiers that can be mass-produced are Alleria.
The most stable source of troops you can find.
This inverted mountain has incredible gravity, so standing halfway up the mountain and looking at the Celestial City gives people a weird and inconsistent feeling: it's as if the whole world is upside down, and you can't feel the reality.
What really matters is yourself.
The production process of the Gunda Colossus is very novel in my opinion. In those huge "factories" that are hollowed out and buried deep in the mountains, there are large-scale open spaces with rows of neatly arranged blue light balls suspended in the mountains.
In mid-air, each light ball is "immersed" in a small metal limb of the Gunda Colossus. A large number of dots of light shuttle through the light balls, imprinting complex runes on those metal rings. Whenever a piece of metal
After the limb is processed in this way, it will fly out of the light ball, float to the rune platform at the end of the row of light balls, and automatically assemble with other matching metal segments. At the same time, new raw materials are also directly sent in through space transmission.
In the light ball that has just been emptied, the cycle starts over and over again. Each Gunda Colossus can step off the rune platform and go to the next link to receive the infusion of artificial soul and initial task setting. The manufacturing speed of Gunda Colossus is not fast, at least.
During Sandora and I's inspection, not a single Gundar Colossus stepped off the rune platform, which shows that this kind of mana giant, whose combat power is several times that of ordinary imperial soldiers, is considered an elite unit - no matter how many Alleria produces.
The Colossus of Gunda cannot fill the shortage of soldiers at the grassroots level. In the final analysis, the shortage of standard apostles of the mysterious department is still a serious problem.
This "factory" of the mysterious department is very different from the technology-side factories I have seen. Those wonderful floating light balls make it difficult to connect with the production line, but despite the dazzling working methods, everything here still adheres to the hope.
The high-efficiency principle that everyone in the Ling Empire collectively adheres to, and the orderly production look makes people believe that not a second of time will be wasted here.
In the production "workshop" of the Gunda Colossus, we also saw the elemental craftsmen mentioned by Alleria, which are the most basic worker units on the mysterious side. They are a kind of genie that looks like Aladdin, with the upper body barely showing.
A light blue elemental creature that is born out of a human body, but its lower body is a cloud of mist. It seems to be as intelligent as the group of self-disciplined machines around Gaia. Its combat power... is probably non-existent. These elemental craftsmen are under the guidance of several Goodell icebreakers.
Under the command, he is responsible for checking the operating status of each light ball that is inscribing runes on the body parts of the Colossus soldier, and constantly repairing those light balls that have stopped operating due to various accidents or even burned the raw materials - this alone is
It can be seen that the situation of this factory that has been started is not very good.
"Fortunately, there are the Goodel elemental people created by Odysseus. They can also take on some jobs that require flexibility. Although they are still not as good as the advanced puppet creatures, they are at least much smarter than the elemental craftsmen," Alleria
Pointing to a Goodell Ice Breaker who was walking and dropping debris, "The only problem is that after so many years of degradation, these elemental creatures are no longer capable of maintaining their own entities. Except for the use of their brains, their own working ability is almost zero.
And I don’t dare to let them go to the workshop where the environmental requirements are level three or above to conduct on-site command, because..."
"Because they dropped scum." I helplessly covered my forehead and watched the ice-breaker not far away scratching my crotch again - I don't know if this was the ice-breaker who took us to see Odyssey.
People, they all seem to look the same.
"Hey, I don't know if it's an illusion," I suddenly noticed something and pointed at Alleria's face and said, "Your resolution seems to be higher than before."
Everyone knows Alleria's form. It's just an unclear light and shadow. Her whole body is shrouded in a dense mist-like light. Only the female form can be vaguely seen. But now I suddenly found that I seemed to be able to distinguish
After seeing the opponent's facial features, the layer of light became thinner at some point, so she asked this question. Alleria was stunned for a moment. She didn't understand what "higher resolution" meant at first, and then
Shandora explained a few words to her in a state of laughter and tears, and then she nodded suddenly: "Oh, it's just gradually recovering. You don't think that my subordinate's original form is so foggy, do you?"
My answer was very honest: "...I really thought so."
Alleria was always choked to death by my words, and this time was no exception. She was speechless again for a few seconds before explaining: "The Xiling Angel is in the form of Sir Alaya, and that is the normal state.
, This subordinate's current appearance was not intentional, but something went wrong during the awakening process in the assembly hall... In a state of unconsciousness, he mistakenly regarded the form of the missing body as his original appearance, and
I have forgotten what I originally looked like. For energy creatures, the soul determines the appearance, and our appearance depends on what we think we should look like. The newborn Xiling Angels all look the same, and it often takes a few months to look good.
It has its own unique face, so occasionally it can be used to distinguish whether an energy creature is a newborn. The subordinate made a mistake in his memory at the time, and now he has regained his memory. But it takes time to slowly eliminate that mistake.
The influence, well, has been very effective - can you see my facial features?"
Alleria said, her always calm and plain tone couldn't help but have a hint of happiness, but I suddenly thought of something that made me very sad, so I nodded with a sad face: "Ah, congratulations...
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"...Your Majesty? What are you doing?"
Shandora pressed my shoulder and waved to Alleria: "Don't ask. Being shameless is a black history for Arjun..."
I thought sadly that my void form is still in a shameless state, after so many years of hard work. The only progress was to get a nose on the top of my head. The second form changed quite a lot, becoming like an awl. By that
So and so jokingly calls Aladdin the djinn... Well, yes, he looks just like the elemental craftsman over there. After meeting Alleria, I thought to myself that I had finally found a companion who could balance my mind. No way.
To think that people have improved the resolution so quickly...
The kite angel Alleria said something unknown and led us to continue to visit the remaining parts of the arsenal. However, there was nothing interesting to see in other places, or in other words, it was completely to the point that I could not understand it, so
I mentioned another thing that concerned me a lot: "I heard Bella Villa say that you found information about the glowing circle?"
Alleria nodded: "Yes. I just haven't had time to report to you yet. The Heart of the World ring you retrieved from the North Icefield, after our inspection, we found that in addition to being the host of the Heart of the World, it is also
A storage device that integrates a large amount of technical information about high-level weapons. It should be that Reki-sama had foreseen that the capital universe would still be torn apart by shock waves. Therefore, the most important technical information was backed up in the heart of the world. We
We are working hard to sort out the information, and have begun to build the Star Shaping Pool and the Mana Energy Tower. However, to create a high-level space battleship of the level of the Glow Ring, even with the empire's highest efficiency, I am afraid..."
"I know, Bella Vera has already complained about this to me once, so we can't rush this."
"But we still have some finished products that you can take a look at in advance - something on a small scale." Alleria seemed to smile - I interpreted her momentary pause as a smile. Then she took us to
In the second half of the magic puppet production factory, there is another completely different set of production facilities.
A large array of runes suspended in the air and crystal sheets arranged in a symmetrical octagon were placed in a hall with a radius of about fifty meters. In the center of this group of mysterious facilities, there was a three-meter-high, shaped
A strange thing that looks like water droplets.
"This is a test area. We are trying to restore various industrial infrastructures that are not currently available in Tianjie City but were widely used in the old empire. What you see now is a single combat cabin. Outside, this set of things is a
The assembly unit and other production facilities are being tested in other rooms. This drop-shaped thing is the result of several days."
Alleria pointed out the drop-shaped object called the Individual Combat Cabin to us, and then clicked a few times on the crystal sheet closest to her, and the eight crystal sheets quickly sank to the ground. "Water Drops"
It floated in front of us.
I curiously reached out and touched it, and found that it had a hard, cold and smooth surface. But strangely, although it had a silver-white smooth shell that looked reflective, it did not reflect my shadow at all.
, not even a little blurry image is reflected, and its surface is an absolutely uniform layer of luster. This is obviously not a property that ordinary materials should have - it is not even consistent with optics. Until now, these things on the mysterious side have been
It gave me the impression that everything in them is a bit inconsistent with common sense. You can always find in them something that is more or less inconsistent with the current world view, which is really amazing.
"It looks much smaller than a single-soldier fighter plane. The longest axis is only three meters." I knocked on the shell of the water drop, and the latter made a crisp sound. "Soldiers are participating in space battles inside?"
"No, maybe it's not the same as you imagined..." Alleria reached out and touched the surface of the water drop, and then a wonderful scene appeared: the latter began to soften and twist, falling to the ground like melted butter, and then the rest
The volume began to shrink abnormally, and slowly re-solidified and swelled from a large puddle of liquid state. This process made people couldn't help but think of those slimes that often appear in games and are responsible for showing warriors the path of life - and then this guy
It really turned into a slime.
The three-meter-high hard water droplet changed in just a few seconds and turned into a "slime"-like creature that was only half a person tall and looked like a jelly-like swaying, and the latter kept making gurgling noises.
The voice seemed to be paying tribute to me and Sandora, and then the shape continued to change, first turning into the appearance of Odysseus, then turning into the appearance of me, and then turning into a girl we have never seen before.
, but in the end, this "slime" turned into a puddle of jelly, swaying up and down as if it was extremely tired, as if it was breathing heavily.
I was dumbfounded by the scene in front of me that was full of complaints.
"The individual soldier combat cabin is a transformation process. Its essence is a set of rune devices that can change the physical form. The soldier does not 'drive' inside, but is directly integrated with the rune set in the combat cabin.
The soldier battle chamber can only be used by this type of elemental creature, nicknamed arcane bean sprouts, because their bodies can be decomposed and can be integrated with anything that responds to magic energy without hindrance. You can use this
The little 'pilot' is imagined as a liquid, so that it can flow through the arcane energy-filled veins of the individual combat pod. When the combat state is lifted, the combat pod will be absorbed into the body of its symbiotic soldier, in the form of a runic array.
The way to store it is like this." Alleria said, bending down to pick up the "Arcane Bean" (actually I really want to call it a slime) that was crawling around, although this thing is definitely smaller than
Slime with strong combat power) turned over, revealing a large shiny and beautiful rune under the latter's "belly". After careful observation, I discovered that these runes were all in the opponent's body, but because of "
The belly of "Arcane Bean Ding" is completely transparent, so you can see it so clearly.
"One of the important reasons for the small size of the individual combat cabin is that it does not carry any conventional weapons - individual combat aircraft have artillery, missile launchers, and space mine deployment devices, but the individual combat compartment does not have them. It
In fact, it is an amplification device that can be used to amplify the power of its symbiote, so it is actually a..."
Alleria paused, feeling indescribable, and finally choked out a few words: "It's a combat uniform..."
I looked at "Arcane Bean Ding" who had begun to imitate himself into a crystal-clear Chinese pastoral dog, and I felt...
The mysterious side of things is so amazing... (To be continued